Starting a blog in theory doesn’t seem to be that hard. Everybody has Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and a lot of people post things online. So how hard could it be to create a blog and post things that you like there?

I’m here to say that contrary to what people will tell you online, starting a blog can present some challenges, specially if you’re totally new to this.

Creating the blog and publishing your first post is one part of the story. The other one is managing the site and trying to post regularly.

Recently I had some issues with my site, in the sense that I couldn’t reach it anymore. This problem lasted for 3-4 days and there were times when I thought I’ll never see it fixed again. Hours and hours were spent talking to the suport team.

I’ve talked to probably 20 different persons from Bluehost and most of them only managed to fix the problem momentarily. The site would work for an hour or two and after that crash again.

It was very frustrating and time consuming all of this. At one point I was considering closing the site and continue to focus more on the other projects that I have.

After 3 long days, one person from Bluehost managed to finally solve the problem and now the site is working fine. I still have that fear it could crash in any moment. I know that they fixed it and it’s ok now but probably some time needs to pass so I can forget about this horrible experience.
I wasn’t expecting all of this when I started. In my mind I thought that I will only focus on things to post and how to grow my blog.
Spending 3 long days trying to get the site back working wasn’t part of the plan.

Another important aspect worth mentioning is that writing articles for this blog takes more time than expected.

Planning a subject and after that finding the right words to put it in writing takes time.

I don’t know if is the same for everybody, but for me  it can take a day or two to finish a single blog post. Sometimes I spend even more than two days on a post.

My goal is to get to a level when I can write 2-3 articles a day.
Now, before you say that writing a article is not that difficult, I need to mention that if I had the whole day just for this I would probably be able to write 3 posts even now( it’s difficult but I belive I could do it). The problem is that I’m doing many other things during the day one of them being the fact that I still have a 12,5 hours/day job.

It’s important for me to get to a level of writing, that when I have 40 minutes or an hour available, that’s all I need to write the article. I’m not quite there yet but I’m working on it.

This blogging adventure was planned as a 5 step process, this now being step 1. In a month or so, I believe it will be ready to begin step two.

Right now is important to be consistent and create as much content as possible, of course maintaining the normal quality of the site.
I didn’t think it’s going to be easy, so I’m prepared and ready to put in the work. It is exhausting at times and requires your full dedication, but in my mind there is not a single doubt that I will succeed in the end.

Better time management is something that I have to work on.

I’ve always been quite good in managing my time and I never had any issues with it. At this point, considering the ammount of work and the large number of projects I have, time is beginning to be a problem. I have to plan my time to perfection so I can get as many things done in a day as possible.

It’s a work in progress and is not always perfect. The main focus points are to continue to improve each day and to develop new and healthy habits that can get me closer to my objectives.

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